My honeybee game is officially The Wax Marches - and is in alpha playtest on itch! tbr.bearblog.dev/honeybees-is...

Honeybees is officially The Wax Marches - Alpha Playtest Live on Itch!

Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically...

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I went and wrote a scenario for the Violence in July jam for Luke Gearing's Violence. Go steal some bones! personable.itch.io/big-carls-bo...

Big Carl's Bones by Personable

A Scenario for Violence

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Two Casting Calls A Triangle Agency mini-series by @shinobisukiro.bsky.social Session Zero: 8/10 7pm CDT Session and Call Time: 8/17 to 9/21 6:30pm CDT A Fire Tales one-shot by @firetales.bsky.social Session Zero: 8/22 12:30pm CDT Session and Call time: 8/29 12:30pm CDT linktr.ee/nerdswithdice

we over here at @nerdswdice.bsky.social also have an awesome one shot coming up in August with the creator of a beautiful game called Fire Tales. do take a look and apply below! tally.so/r/lb1ajX

Player Sign Up: Fire Tales

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Voting for the 2026 ENNIE Awards is live! I’m one of the candidates to be a judge next year, and I’m asking for your vote! In this thread I’ll explain what that means, why you should vote for me, and where you can read more of my thoughts on tabletop games. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ 1/

Making your own dungeon can feel intimidating, but it's just a series of discrete steps. To help make the joy of writing your own dungeon available for everyone, I wrote the Designing Dungeons Course. Please vote it #1 for BEST ONLINE CONTENT in this year's ENNIES! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/

SPINE is nominated for Best Solo Game in this year's ENNIES, and voting is now live: vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ Please help spread the word and consider giving it a vote. And if you haven't heard of SPINE, here is a thread. SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book... 🧵

one of the most exciting parts of the seven-part pact release for me is the highest tier, which will (amongst all the other gubbins available for the campaign) feature a very special object ... a hand-illuminated, hand-painted limited print of the Orrery done by jennifer dragon, my real-life mom

Coming soon: Ea-nāṣir Must Die! A Mark of the Odd adventure for 3–5 players. Inspired by the historical figure & meme, Ea-nāṣir. Ea-nāṣir is a copper merchant from Ur. Ea-nāṣir sold bad copper. Ea-nāṣir received many complaint tablets. Ea-nāṣir made many enemies. Ea-nāṣir Must Die! #ttrpg #osr

Dawn of the Orcs is back on Backerkit for 10 days, as part of the Ennies Emporium! Play wizards and mad scientists. Build your own orcs. It's a GMless game with just the right mix of strategy and storytelling that everyone who plays it has a good time. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

Dawn of the Orcs - ENNIES EMPORIUM!

Dawn of the Orcs is an Ennie-nominated GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them ...

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New FULLY PLAYABLE cramOS v0.95 released! shurebis.itch.io/cramos-ttrpg Burrows procedure. Pointcrawl map creation. Rules for XP and body mods. Tables for NPCs and Abyssals. Scopes of Play. New and revamped layout. Grab your free download, as cramOS TTRPG will release soon with a price tag!

cramOS TTRPG Playtesting by Shurebis (aka Gustavo Chedid)

Oddlike Weird Dungeon Crawling Survival SCIFI TTRPG

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Calling RPG Bloggers! Participate in the Orpheus Blog Bandwagon between July 17th and 24th: tree-climber.blogspot.com/2026/07/band...

Bandwagon: Orpheus

I call upon my fellow RPG bloggers to produce Orpheus themed texts during the time of July 17th to July 24th.  During this time I hope to se...

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This was a good post! It got me thinking, and then got me typing, and now my blog has a new post about Activation Energy, using chemistry as an analogy for play, and musing about how we can be intentional about getting games to the table. Enjoy! seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...

The Activation Energy of a Game

This is the second in my series of “Lunch Break Lectures”. I’m trying to create an avenue for putting my thoughts out there without worrying too much about edits or rigor. Does this mean I’m g...

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Bastionland Press@bastionland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

Random Blogwagon Roundup — Prismatic Wasteland

In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!

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For @prismaticwasteland.com's Random Blogwagon I decided to use Shadowdark's random tables to draft an adventure. I avoided using any other resources except for my noggin and came up with a pretty decent little adventure. This is my biggest post in terms of time, effort, and words. Pretty happy.

New Blogpost: Five methods for dealing with repeated results on random tables #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

Five Solutions to the Birthday Paradox in Tables — Prismatic Wasteland

When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particularly for random encounter tables.

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I've written a new essay about my experience opening my copy of City of Six Moons, designed by @amabel.bsky.social, and the emotions it inspired in me. It's a strange and beautiful game, which more than earned the reaction it provoked from me. Enjoy! seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...

Striving for Understanding or: A Review of Unboxing City of Six Moons and Reading its Rules

I come home from work to see a package on my porch. In theory, I know the game that is inside. I sit down, open the package, look inside. Three large symbols that tower over every other element look u...

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In the 10th session of our B1 campaign, the party launches a counterattack into orc territory. Can they overcome the orcs? With the goblins' leader killed, which of the goblins will earn glory ahead of the upcoming Goblins' Moot? Read to find out! #TTRPG #D&D #AD&D #OSR

Play Report (AD&D 2e): In Search of the Unknown (Session 10)

We played the tenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here . Th...

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Trespasser's remake is OUT! A revamp of the 2022 original from the original Breathless Jam, revised following the kickstarter.

I wrote about AD&D's most expensive & irritating NPC - the sage. Although it is said that the Brotherhood of Sages is an informal organization, their universal demands of lifetime employment, generous salaries & benefits, &, of course, plenty of books leaves one to wonder... #TTRPG #D&D #AD&D #OSR

AD&D's Most Expensive and Irritating NPC

No NPC embodies the Gygaxian maxim that dealing with NPCs "should be expensive and irritating"  quite like the sage. Like the spy , the sage...

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Wake up, babe. New blogpost from my Indonesian friend, Habeeb (who wrote "the default dungeon is colonial"). This one is about about touching heavy topics/themes in your TTRPG world. beeboobubie.substack.com/p/is-it-okay...

is it okay to write this?

on fantasy, oppression, and the responsibility of making imagined worlds

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I'm collecting data on how weird we are. forms.gle/ric62Zm5gwKL...

What TTRPGs is the Blogosphere playing?

I want to see how different the TTRPG blogosphere is from DungeonTube. Three questions: - What games are you running? - What games are you playing in? - What game do you most want to play next? If y...

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My latest #dungeon for #OSR games is now on itch. Check it out. beneath-foreign-planets.itch.io/pity-the-cav...

Pity the Cavemen by Beneath Foreign Planets

A miserable dungeon of pulp savagery and oozing body-horror.

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🚨 New Indonesian-made TTRPG adventure! 🚨 My friend, Eatmaja, has just released a system neutral pamphlet adventure for any OSR D&D systems! "Siblings of the Sweet" is inspired by the German fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel. It is free/PWYW! #ttrpg #osr #dnd eatmaja.itch.io/siblings-of-...

Part of being an AI user in creative works is convincing yourself that everyone ELSE uses it too, because otherwise you have to confront the reality that you're a faker and a fraud

Jonathan Bernstein@jonbern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

Attention all bloggers: a new blog bandwagon appears! This time the topic is randomness in all its forms. The post includes some random tables to further randomize your ensuing post #osr #ttrpg

RANDOM BLOGWAGON — Prismatic Wasteland

Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in your posting.

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A bit about how "magic" works in the Jewelsea and the draft rules I used for last month's playtest - table46.bearblog.dev/magic-in-the... #nsr #osr #posr #rpg

To Call Upon the Powers of the World - "Magic" in the Jewelsea

I've long disliked the way magic is portrayed in fantasy RPGs, with a neat delineation between "magic" and "mundane." I prefer a vision more accommodating of...

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Check out this amazing adventure!

Kati, A Certified Yapper@bakenshake.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Released my first Mothership module today - Prospero's Trust, inspired by #over/under by @samsorensen.bsky.social. Shoutout to @amandalee.bsky.social and @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social for their incredible art along with all the support from fellow creators. <3 bakenshake09.itch.io/prosperos-tr...

GET IT NOW #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

Anti-colonial TTRPG Map. Part of @prismaticwasteland.com's Maps Blogwagon. In this blogpost, I analyzed a pre-colonial Indonesian map and use it as reference on how I would make an Anti-colonial TTRPG Map. afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/anti-colonia... #ttrpg #osr

Anti-colonial TTRPG Map

TTRPG Maps, but make them Anti-colonial.

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